Lavendersong

2009-05-23T10:15:00.000-07:00

There's a plant in the window, growing at incredible speed but stuck in a tiny pot, we'll see how it goes

Dear Friend, it's the 23rd of May and things are looking bright. I've passed lotsa exams and assignments, climbed out of my recent loss of faith and found time to do some more photographing. I'm alive and kicking. I realized that I probably won't get anywhere with trying to think my way to "truth" or "wisdom", sure, I might stick to a thought or philosophy for a while, but then I'll think some more and get all confused again. My thinking took me strange, barren places I do not wish to go. Thus, I realized, using my feelings, I can go anywhere. Less mind more heart. As long as I love life and all creation, I will be fine.

Can't be arsed to upload new pics, but I'm working on my other website again and hopefully we'll see some updates there, for you who know the url (and thus my real world identity).

Until then, go have a laugh:

http://failblog.org/

2009-05-02T11:10:00.001-07:00

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience"

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dear random reader, it's May and a lots of things have been going on. I'm finally done; I've had a five week-or-so streak of really important and heavy things to do, such as writing a short story for Blizzard Entertainments international writing contest, singing with my choir in the Holland Harmony (European barbershop championship) which we totally won, then singing with the same choir and with my newly formed quartet in the Nordic Championship (SNOBS convention 2009) where our choir won again and my quartet qualified for the international collegiate quartet competition, and finally, I participated in a national Madarin Chinese profiency contest and won a one year scholarship, lots and lots of assignments and exams in school and stuff so yeah... Things have been quite... Busy.

And on the inside, I've had like an emotional, spiritual, psychological and philosophical break through, which I might share with you later... It was sweet! Here's some nice links to some of my favourite photographers, and also I uploaded a creepy photo I took recently.

Henri Cartier-Bresson
Raymond Depardon
A good friend of mine

2009-02-24T13:11:00.001-08:00

Gray and gloomy...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH these months are so infuriatingly pissy. These two months, January and February, are freakin' meant for doing nothing. I'm hibernating, trying to fade away in self-imposed seclusion... There are a couple of things working against me though; school and my chorus. I'm fine with the latter, but the former is, I don't know, spinning out of control. The summed up amount of work needed to be done is fairly manageable, but the way it is structured and split up into millions of separated and seemingly complicated tasks is not, or whine-spawning at least...

Oh well.

I'm still trading this reality for the Northrend one, which is fine. My pet snakes (photos coming soon) are doing great, I hope. Not taking too much photos, but took some shots with ironically show what mood I'm in. I may or may not have met someone who's breathing warm new winds in my cold winter being at the moment which is plain fine. Ran out of books to read as well. Shakespeare? Meh.

I hope you're in a more, colorful, mood than I am,

loads of LAVender

2009-02-17T02:24:00.000-08:00

Hectic times... The second half of January and the first half of February was filled with events. My male chorus recorded a CD on which I sing a solo, I'm satisfied with that and the time in the studio was a nice change to the gray days of these otherwise sort of useless months.

We also had a Valentine's Show which went well; we sang together with my very good friends the Ringmasters and adorable Matilta Bådagård. I actually got to sing a duett with Matilda, it was awesome. The rest of that weekend was also hectic, but in a completely different way...

Last night the Ringmasters held their own concert together with the super cute girls Kraja. After that we went out and grabbed a beer or five. Other than that I've spent a lot of time sinking deep into the world of Azeroth, I'm sorry, but it's way more colorful and rewarding than this world at the moment...

See you in Ulduar!

Ps. Did I mention the Chinese New Year DJ Gig I had? I'll write about that next time. Ds.

2009-01-27T09:14:00.001-08:00

Sushi Time! Ah, and so it came to pass that a couple of friends from my uni class and I decided to stray away from the Mandarin Path for a while and feast on some home made (well... home sliced and rolled) sushi! I provided the house and my pals provided the actual food. I tried to talk myself out of the more serious tasks such as slicing the salmon in perfect slices thus I ended up monitoring the boiling rice. Fair enough.

This took us about two or three hours, making your own wasabi not included. But it tasted oh so good, and after some diplomatic discussions one party convinced the other party to boil the rest of the rice and make more sushi - an extremely wise choice. Sometimes during this three hour adventure I sneaked off and snapped some photos.

It was a great evening and the food was really tasty - making your own sushi meals is easy and recommended for all people out there with sensitive taste buds and too much spare time.

2009-01-18T06:58:00.000-08:00

All work and no play make Lavender a dull writer... Since I started studying really diligently and ambitiously more than one week ago, my time on-line has been minimal. On the other hand, I now know a whole lot more about the history of the People's Republic of China and stuff. I also have a new, struggling and strong caffeine-addiction. And oh, we had some two or three recording sessions with the chorus, laying down some tracks for our upcoming CD which I will tell you to buy once it gets out.

Gosh, I get bored even writing about my nerdy week.

As I wrote earlier here somewhere - I really don't respect people who have a boring blog where they don't write about anything special or important... Thumbs up for dedicated music blogs, political blogs and other, constructive and productive blogs which provide their readers with useful info. Mine is of course in the former category and I'm quite embarrassed about that fact... But what I detest more than pointless personal blogs, are pointless personal blogs linking to mindless Youtube-clips which anyone with a decent Internet connection and no life has already seen. So. Here we go...

Charlie the Unicorn

I've become, it seems, what I've always hated... Hahahah!

And to make this look pretty, I've uploaded some more photos from my stay in China.

Love and bunnies,

Lavender

2009-01-09T14:56:00.000-08:00

Old friends... Sat on their park bench like bookends. Evening! I just had the privilege to have a good, very old friend over for dinner. I've known her since we were ten, but we haven't met for like two or three years because we went to universities in different cities and stuff. Thus, this night was all about catching up re life; school, job, (ex) partners - everything. It was a very still and warm evening.

She just left, and I'm sitting here feeling calmly happy. Somehow, sometimes, especially after coming home from a long trip filled with meetings with new people, places and new life experiences - meeting someone who truly knows you, or at least grew up with you, is plain awesome. There are always things about you that someone you've only known for half a year or so can't possibly know, and that's exactly why I like spending time with someone who has known you since you were kids.

Anyhow, we've both been in Shanghai for a long (but not at the same) time, so that was a good and grand topic. We looked at some of my 10 000 photos (yes I know) and now I figured; why not upload some of them here for all the world to see? Hahaha who am I kidding...

All of these are taken at Summer Palace in Beijing, China, August 2008. I'll upload some more eventually...

Until next time,

Lavender

2009-01-04T06:16:00.000-08:00

Ouch, the temperature is painfully low, isn't it? I'm camping in my home with my little Hercules Dj Console MK2, trying hard to mix my way out of daily boredom. I really miss having pets around. I grew up with a Boxer dog, after that we've had several cats, and the last one (see the photo) moved to my Aunt on the other side of the city; he decided there's more woods and open spaces and less cars and rivals over there. So... It's so silent and weird here now. Good I can fill the void up with beats and tunes, a six-pack of Miller and also, True Blood and the fifth season of Entourage...

Ps. Also found some more New Year's Eve dinner pics. Ds.

2009-01-02T08:38:00.000-08:00

Adieu 2008, Ninhao 2009... And so another year has left us, with what? For me personally, a new patch of memories and experiences and lips and flowers and rainbows and whatnot. Definitely worth celebrating! After a slight change of plans we ended up downtown in my friend's boyfriend's (also my friend) friendly family home. I was stunned, amazed at the wonderful tastes and magical flavors of the food which was cooked as I stood by, sipping on my odd martini...

After that we went somewhere to meet someone and do something, ultimately ending up on a classy ole bridge observing the sky and the fiery spectacle taking place at that time, which, if I'm correct, would be around the end of last year and the beginning of this year.

It was a joyous occasion and a festive atmosphere, but slowly me and my closest companion began to lose interest and our moods sort of dropped slightly, so we returned to this companion's flat where we enjoyed some music and finally fell asleep in a sort of "I haven't really passed out but not fallen asleep normally either"-fashion.

Next day, which would be yesterday, we raided the closest open pizzaplace, went back, and watched three movies (The Dark Knight, Corpse Bride and Tropic Thunder), different genres, different people, different tastes... I managed to catch the last train and the last bus home, where I randomly bumped into my other very close companion and we travelled through the winter night retelling and discussing the events of last night. This would be the night before last night. If I am correct.

Weee, my Hercules DJ Console MK2 has arrived! I've been playing with it ever since I plugged it in, 5 hours and I'm not bored yet! The need for food, friends and fish (?) is absolutely gone. Thank you, materialism and music.

2008-12-30T12:01:00.000-08:00

Tomorrow Night is New Year's Eve they say. It seems I will be spending it with one of my best friends, a nice rare steak and some mild intoxicants. After that we'll probably get invited to head out somewhere into the dark midwinter night in order to go party, get adequately intoxicated and do things we'll regret the next year...

My laptop broke down today. Great. And the Hercules DJ Console MK2 I ordered hasn't shown up yet. What the heck am I supposed to do when I'm alone in my home and too lazy to call someone over (allthough I did that, thanks M for coming over and cheering me up some) and not motivated enough to start a new project - let's say - studying for my upcoming exam next year?

Well, I picked up my camera and photographed some things I found in my room. One is a companion I've had since I was fourteen years old, the other one is a small leftover found in my pocket after a good night downtown; a concert, dinner, two bars, two clubs and one friend's bedroom. Thanks guys for a good night out, much needed.

2008-12-29T05:27:00.000-08:00

Time to upload some photos... So, I guess you don't know me yet. I don't know how much I want that to change, but I could tell you that I've been away for five months, which I spent in the Far East. I have some five thousand photos from that trip, some of which most probably will be uploaded here with a little story attached to them.

I returned Home last Monday and spent Christmas Eve at my Aunt's. She lives outside town near a lake and some forests, which makes perfect photo opportunities. We took a stroll on Christmas Day, just before the Sun rose and started melting all those frozen, magically silent trees and bushes and whatnot. I hope you like them.

2008-12-29T05:03:00.000-08:00

The clock tells me the time is four minutes past one A.M. I'm sitting here mixing some songs for my own delight, in the wee small hours of the night. It's been a pleasant evening; a friend turned twenty-one which we all found worth celebrating. She invited some seventeen of us to her pretty home. There was good food, red wine, old friends and new faces, incorrect jokes and glittering presents...

I disappeared somehow upstairs into someone's bedroom with someone, discussing The Office for hours, and when I descended I realized most people had already left, and the others were deeply sunk into a seemingly endless jam session. As my emotional landscape was sort of misshaped by the mild alcohol-intake, I felt a sudden need to rush home and hide myself in my laptop and my music.

No photos for now, but there will be some next time. Until then, please lay your paws on these tracks and press PLAY.

Over and out,

Lavender

Trentemøller - Take Me Into Your Skin
Kleerup feat. Lykke Li - Until We Bleed
Filur - You And I (Trentemøller remix)
Hird - Keep You Kimi
Armin Van Buuren - The Sound Of Good Bye (Edx's Indian Summer Remix)
Kleerup feat. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
Röyksopp - Remind Me
Daft Punk - Something About Us
Trentemøller - Miss You
Patrick Wolf - The Stars
Radiohead - Kid A

2008-12-28T02:51:00.000-08:00

It's amazing how we humans often do what we say we won't. I promised myself and my closest people I would never start "blogging" - is that even a word? - because I was so sick of the trend even before it was a trend, don't ask me why. But. Here I am, writing my first post on a place not unlike my cousin's blog, you might call mine a complete rip-off actually.

I will not focus on myself, I will not let many people know about this blog, so all in all I view this as my (other) secret little On-line hideout, my little barn on the edges of the woods of the Net.

You'll now and then find A Little Something I for some reason uploaded here, most probably photos, possibly some comments on my life, the people in it, the world or the human state in general, also some quotes from whatever I have in my paws and mental claws at the moment, and quite unlikely - music and links to other blogs and places on the net.

For now, a couple of photos of what I saw from my bedroom window last night, and a small, kind and not seductive at all - kiss on the cheek.

Love and Lavender,
Me